The Isles of Scilly Local education Authority has top the League tables.

The tables revealed that 87.5% of students got five or more good GCSE grades last year.

They also showed a very low absentee rate with only 0.7% half day sessions lost through unauthorised absence.

Lesley Hopkins a governer for the school told Scilly News “After so much gloom and despondency over education on the islands, howpleasing that we have topped the league tables. A tribute to the good teaching in the school. I am sure our present year 11 will wish to gainan even higher percentage level.”

The tables were published on Thursday.